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Nigeria: What business needs

Business experience is not lacking among the top candidates for president in next year's polls in February. We look at how the top contenders plan to confront the country's main economic challenges.

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future proofing

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Tony Elumelu: ‘Security and freedom of movement are essential to attract investment’

It was at a dinner reception on 14 July at the Palazzo Versace in Dubai where Tony Elumelu heralded the start of a new chapter for United Bank of Africa (UBA) with the official opening of a new branch at the Dubai International Financial Centre.

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Resource Play

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Exclusive: Nigerian gas business Tetracore plans foreign stock-market listing

Nigerian gas conglomerate Tetracore is planning to list on a foreign exchange this year as it seeks funding to expand, CEO Olakunle Williams tells The Africa Report.

Kenyan entrepreneur turns farm waste into low cost organic fertilizer in Mwea

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Race Against Hunger

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Nigerian food commodities exchange AFEX seeks funding for east Africa expansion

Nigerian food commodities exchange AFEX is seeking funding for expansion in east Africa as the Russia-Ukraine war sharpens regional food insecurity, managing director Tabitha Njuguna tells The Africa Report.

An employee of tech start-up Sendy, which offers online logistics services, works on her computer at their office in Nairobi

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known identity

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Nigeria: Identitypass CEO on fundraising and valuations in Africa’s nascent start-up industry

When verification and compliance start-up Identitypass took the decision to raise seed funding towards the end of last year, Lanre Ogungbe, co-founder and CEO explains how he began collecting the names of funds, venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) firms in one long and winding document.

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Nigeria focus

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Nigeria 2023: Obi, Tinubu, Atiku all promise business a break from Buhari-era woes

The economy played a significant role in Kenya’s August 2022 election, and Nigeria’s 2023 polls are set to follow the same pattern. For the first time in a long time in Nigeria, all of the top candidates – the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi – have years of experience in the business world.

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'everywhere but nowhere'

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Nigeria: Strict statism of Buharinomics has cost for ordinary people

President Muhammadu Buhari’s strict statist policies have boosted Nigeria's domestic food production and reduced imports, but at what cost to ordinary people?

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